The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.

She and my dad were great gardeners. They always had gardens. It was fantastic.

Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.